Extension and plugin development for the Google Chrome web browser is finally taking off with the inclusion of the extension engine in the latest development versions of the Google browser. Chrome users had to start the browser with a command line parameter before if they wanted to enable extensions. It is now more comfortable to [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Automatic translations are a good but imperfect way of being able to understand text that is written in a language that is not spoken by the user (or not spoken sufficiently to understand the text). Google’s translation service is without doubt one of the most popular – and widely used – automatic translation services on [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Internet users have the choice between several machine translation services that can automatically translate a given text or website in another language. Google Translate is one of the most popular services of this kind. It allows web users to translate text or websites into 51 languages. Google today announced that they have expanded their translation [...]

Categories: Google

It was yesterday that we reviewed the Firefox add-on Wikilook which proved to be a great way of looking up word definitions without leaving the active website. Dictionary.net is more or less the software counterpart of Wikilook. The software program uses the Google Dictionary service to look up word definitions. But that is just one [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Offering computer translations of documents seems to be a one of the features that Google wants to introduce in many of their services. You might remember that they have added automatic translations of RSS feed items in Google Reader a while ago. A super useful feature for users who follow foreign blogs. A few days [...]

Categories: Google, The Web

Google Translate is a web service offered by Google that allows users to get instant machine translations of texts that they paste in the web interface or of websites that they supply the link of. While the translations do not come near the quality of translations made by professionals they are usually enough to give [...]

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You sometimes encounter websites or text on the Internet, in emails or in documents on your computer desktop that are written in a language that you either do not understand completely or have only a limited knowledge of. Automatic translation services are one of the most comfortable and fastest ways of translating these information into [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

A new feature was recently introduced in Gmail that is available in the Labs tab in the Gmail settings. The Message Translation add-on makes it possible to translate incoming email messages with a click of the mouse button. A “translate message to” message will be displayed when viewing emails in Gmail that are not in [...]

Categories: Email

The Internet has made it easy to translate languages on the fly without the need of language dictionaries or other support tools. The software translations are usually acceptable in quality so that even someone not speaking the original language can understand the meaning of the text. Even better is the fact that all sorts of [...]

Categories: Software, Uncategorized, Windows